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TRI-WEfKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S, C., MARCH 30, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849 Let us have coined defined.-Ne York Advertiser. Let us have coin, 4 fined or undefined. We must have money.-New Porta; 4 Gazette. A motion to make the matter unat . mous will be entertained. "In some places people are choppli op snakes for fuel." reumarks the Pit burg Press. In others they are mixif them up with their drinks. Georgia and South Carolina are qua reling about which raised the large hog. Why doesn't Congress tack come question of real interest like thi: Mammoth coalers built to take c goes around Cape Horn to Pacific por are being built, and one is alreat afloat. Enterprise cannot afford wait too long for interocean canals. According to the report of a Chica, society there are 60,000 people in th: city who are confirmed victims < opium. These are evidently the on who took Chicago's last census, sa: the New York Press. A certain merchant is cackling 1 Chicago over his corner of the egg ma ket. He cleains to-have driven t] price of the hen product to 35 cents pi dozen in New York. A sudden tha may spoil his profits and afford hani m'issiles against cold-blooded calcul; tors. Judge Roger A. Pryor, one of tI Democratic Judges in New York Cit; refused to naturalize two men last we( because they could not speak Englis: and announced that no foreigner wl had not learned something of that lai guage during his five years' residen< in this country need apply to him f< naturalization. In one of its latest decisions the Si preme Court declares that negligem as a cause of action against a rai road company must be proven, an that the finding of the body of a ma on the tracks does not create a pri suniption that he came there by rease of the company's negligence. Th ruling will have a far-reaching effe< upon damage suits brought again: railroad companies for injuries r< ceived on their property. The assumj tion will be made that the tracks we] amply guarded, and the plaintiff wi be c6mpelled to prove his .point an show by evidence that they. were no It is notorious that the law regardin protection at railroad eossings is col stantly and flagrantly violated. Whei however, the victim to this negligenc has been killed it becomes almost in possible to bring witnesses to the fa< of violation at the particular time. The worm has turned. The biter h been bitten. Lt the unusual fact ' duly recorded. A few days ago Farm( John Sheffield, of Manchester Cro: Roads, N. Y., received a mysterious ei cular letter inviting him to go to Ne York City and buy "green goods." 13 .went. He was taken in tow by a "gree goods" operator as soon as he reache the town and was steered into a den an obscure hotel, where he met tn e other men who had money to sell cut rates. These gentlemen showe him $1,600 In crisp new bank notes, an assured him that he could have tI bundle for $200 spot cnsh. Whereup. Farmer Sheffield, while examining tl alleged counterfeits, hastily gathered:i the pile, planked down $200 in pa; -- ment and pocketed his purchase. TI three swindlers made a united i'm upon him, and in just ten seconds I had pummeled all of his assailants in insensibility and sauntered out of ti -place humming, "This is the way long have sought and mourned becau: I found it not." 'Farmer Sheffield r ported the occurrence to the New Yo: police, and is held to await the appea ance of some one to lodge a comphli against him. Let him go-and give hi medal for being the only manm wi ever beat a gang of New York sharpe. at their own game. The Sheffield cu rency game is a daisy. In the death of Isaac Pusey Graty ti State of Indiana and the field of Amue lean politics lose a most familiar at interesting figure. During a lifetin which was filled with activity and us ful work, he held and discharged ai ceptably a number of posts from whi< he often seemed prepared to step in the coveted office of the Presidene His public career began with the cit war, when he assumed command< one of the Indiana regiments. Afte the war he became President of ti Indiana Senate, being elected as a RI p~ublican. It was not until seren yeal after quitting the battlefield that I joined the Democratic party, in wic he figuired so prominently. Durli his terms in the Governorship of Ind ana he acquired the prominence whit made him a 'Presidential possibility but for some reason due either to tI man himself or the destiny -yhich o der's the affairs of polities .iis caret never brought him higher than a Sta position. It was in recognition of ;:oc and faiithful services that P'residei Cleveland made him Minister to Me: ico. but it would sem that the limits tionls of the mattn 'oiPned himt to a c; rceer in wthich he could do valuab work as a State lealder, but could n< break out into the larger field of n Nothing will so surely make a fo of a man as an amateur show. Or woman, either, v IrHE EAGLE VANQU!SHED, And it Was Done by a Brave Little Pussy Cat. Charles Wiswell, of Carbonate, Minn. aas a cat that Is a king of its kind. Be sides being a good mouser, this remark able feline Is death to mountain rats, night hawks and other small game. But the most remarkable incident in In the cat's history happened a day or two s- ago. It was an encounter with a full W grown bird of freedom, and pussy was the victor. The cat was sitting on a pile of quartz patiently awaiting the r- reappearance of a chipmunk, which but st a moment before it had chased into a le hole, when suddenly the sky above the ? cat became darkened, and an omnious swish as if from a rapidly moving body r- fell upon pussy's ear. The cat sprang ts aside and in the place it had occupied ly but a moment before stood a full-grown to bald eagle, its plumage ruffed and thirsting for blood. Pussy had sand ind accepted the gage of battle. It was a desperate struggle, and, al. o though pussy was pretty badly scratch It ed by the eagle's talons, it finally se ) cured a decided advantage, having s landed on the eagle's back. For a few 3 moir ents the air was filled with fur and feathers, and the ground was all torn up, but pussy held on, and in a short n time succeeded in biting through the r- neck of Its antagonist. The struggles e of the eagle grew weaker and weaker, r and soon ceased altogether, and pussy, exhausted by the violent exertions and sore from wounds Inflicted by the eagle's talons, rested for a moment, then, as calm as though sitting on a rug before the kitchen hearth, went carefully over the ruffled fur, made Its e toilet, and, seizing the body of the van-. V, quished antagonist, drew it with much k difficulty to the home of its master. , Maying It at the master's feet, the cat to 1 I .e/ l-/ d BUT PUSSY HELD ON. g purred its satisfaction, and In this way 1- boasted of - the victory. The combat 1, was witnessed by a number of people. e The eagle measured six feet four inches from the tip of one wing to that of the t other. PERFECT FIRE ALARM SYSTEM. ?atented by E. P. McCaslin, of Tulla homa, Tenn. 8 1 The illustration represents a fire alarm whose operation is not dependent vupon electrical-circuits, but which ope Srates positivly in case of tire to sound d the alarm in all parts of the building n with which the apparatus is connected. .The Improvement has been patented iby Eugene P. McCaslin, of Tullahomna, dTenn. A combustible cord, preferably .d sil1t, Is run around the ceiling from a epeg. passing over guide pulleys, a n weight at the end of the cord1 holding e it taut. To the weight is also aittached n a non-combustible cord, whose other rend is secured to a tripp~ing lever, a pull e pnwich disconnects two sections of hauwire one section of which is econnected to extend through openings e !nto all the adljacent rooms andl to all Spalrt~s of the building, having connec I tion with an alarm at all desirable c-THE N1:W FIRE ALARM sSTFM. to oints. If the silk combustible cord is v. s burned, the weight is dropped and il the tripping lever operated to cause the >f separation of the taut wire sections, .r thus sounding the several alarms. The ie ther section of the fatut wire is con e- nected at its other end to a swinging s w'eight fulerumed on the wall of the e room. Any suitable spring alarm may b 5e used with this improvement. h Comipromise. ,I Customer-I want a dress of some nen 'nira tint. r- ModisteBut you are a pronounced r blonde. Customer-YeCs, but my cook is a brn a nette.-Detroit Tribunte. it The Skaters. C- As swiftly o'er the ice they flew 1 As snowflakes whirl. 1- With no one nigh what could he do'. le He hugged the girl. A distant roar, Proclaimed a thaw, and then. alack IHe hugged the shore. i--Washinaton Star. Only One Brave Man. "One day in October, 1877, I was staging it in Northern California." said Thomas 31. Spencer. "There were six of us in -he coach. We were talking about stage robbers. Suddenly there was a halt, and one of the party said: 'Speak of the devil and he will appear.' Well, we all got out and stood in a line and gave up our purses and watches. The driver had thrown ofil the mail-bag and the Wells Fargo safe. There were two robbers, neither of them masked. They were not polite like the knights of the road of romance, but swore continuously. The job was done in about five minutes, and the robbers told the driver to go ahtad. We did so for a half-mile or so, when one of the passengers, a silent man whom I had taken for a commercial man, said to the driver: 'Go slowly and wait for me at the ford.' He then produced a Winchester from the bot tom of the coach and started back over the road alone. "Twenty minutes later we heard some rapid firing. We stopped at the tord. Nearly an hour passed and then the man who had gone back appeared on the trail. He walked slowly, as if in pain, and a bloody handkerchief was tied about his head. 'Drive back and get the box,' he said to the driver. "'Did you get'em?'asked the driver. "'Both of 'em,' he replied. "We drove back. In the middle of the road where we had been held up both men lay dead. The Wells-Fargo detective, calculating that they would stop to rifle the mail-bag and the strong box, divide the plunder and then sepa rate, had quietly walked back. One of them he dropped with his Win chester before he was suspected; the other got in one shot before he fell, and that had struck the brave man a glancing blow on the head. Our prop erty was all restored to us. "-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Some Good Superstitions. A .curious popular belief among the Mexicans relates to the so-called gold snake. Wherever it makes its nest there is sure to be a ledge containing the precious metal, and many miners will locate at once if they chance upon a serpent of this species. Peo ple who dig for metals a. full of superstitions. Mines are always auntedby demons and hobgoblins, some of them malicious and others benevolent. Nickel and Kobold are the names of two gnomes who infest underground workings in Germany. From them are derived the words unickel" and "cobalt." M. GERAULT-RICHARD. He Is Said to Have Been the Imme diate Case of Perier's Resignation. The immediate cause in bringina about the resignation of 1. Casimer Perier is said to have been M. Gerault Richard, who until recently was an >bscure socialist journalist He was the author of an extremely insulting M. GERAULT-RIcHAR.D. rirticle about President Casimer-Perier hich so annoyed the President, whose temperament is extremely sensitiv'e, that a Government prosecution was in Stittedl against him which resulted in his being sent to prison for one year. This only increased his importance unong the Radicals, who elected him : represent the Thirteenth Arrondisse :ent of Paris in Parliament. This fol owed inunediately upon the election of . Brisson to the Presidency of the hamer, an event which M. Casime? 'erier regarded as a personal affront o himiself. A clamor was at once set p by the socialists for M1. Gerault Richard's release, claiming that his iletention in prison after his election was a blow on universal suffrage. The overn men t successfully resisted the :emand for his release, but among those who voted for it wvere various friends of the President, notably M1. Bourgeois, to whom were given the eis5 of power after the fall of the Dupuy Cabinet. M1. Gerault-Richard is styled the "enfant terrible" of the 'rech crisis. Rearranlgemenlt Desired. "Henry," she said, thoughtfully. "What is it?" responded the worrieu business man rather shortly. "I wish you could rearrange youm business a little bit." "How?" "So as to be a hear on the stock ex change instead of at home."-Judge. The Rush Hour Past. Staylate-Well, I must be going. Ethel Knox-Don't hurry; papa is just as mad now as he will be If you hang on another hour.-New Yorb World. Uncomplimentary. She-Why is it American women are so much more attractive to foreigners with titles than English women are? He-Because they have more dollars ad lnes snensc....ntrolt Free Press. 1REV. DR TA IM.GE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE*3 SUN" DAY SERMON. Subject: "New Ground.f TEXT: "Lest I should build upon anothe; man's foundation." -Romans xv., 20. After, with the help of others, I had buili three churches in the same city, and not feeling called upon to undertake the super human toil of building a fourth church. Providence seemed to point to this place as the field in which I could enlarge my work. and I feel a sense of relief amounting to ex ultation. Whereunto this work will grow 1 cannot prophesy. It is inviting and promis Ing beyond anythin, I have ever touched. The churches are the grandest institutions this world ever saw and their pastors have no superiors this siAe of heaven, but there is a work which must be done outside of the churches. and to that lork I join myself foz awhile, "Lest I build on another man's foundation." The church is a fortress divinely built. Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill, and for storing ammunition, but an army must sometimes be on the march far outside the fortress. In the campaign of conquering this world for Christ the time has come for an advance movement, for a "general en Fagement," for massing the troops, for an invasion of the enemies' country. Confident that the forts are well manned by the ablest ministry that ever blessed the. church, I pro pose with others, for awhile, to join the avalry and move out and on for service in the open field. In laying out the plan for his missionar) tour Paul. with more brain than any of his contemporaries or predecessors or succes sors. sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Cor ith, a city mentioned for splendor and vice and Jerusalem, where the priesthood ana Banhedrin were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feels he has a spe 3ial work to do, an he means to do it. What was the result? The grandest life of usefulness that man ever lived. We modern Christian workers are not apt to imitate Paul. We build on other people's founda tions. If we erect a church, we prefer to have it filled with families all of whom have been pious. Do we gather a Sunday-school class, we want good boys and girls, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. o a chureh in this city Is apt to be built out of other churches. Some ministers spend all their time in fishing in other people's ponds, and they throw the line into that chureh pond and jerk out a Methodist and throw the line into another church pond and bring out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious row in some neighboring church, and the whole school of fish swim off from that pond and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. What ib gained? Absolutely noth Ing for the general cause of Christ. It is only as in an army when a regiment Is trans ferred from one alvlsion to another, or from the Fourteenth Regiment to the Sixty-ninth Begiment. What strengthens the army is iev recruits. The fact is, this is a big world. When in our schoolboy days we learned the diameter and circumference of this planet we did not learn half. It is the latitude and longitude and diameter and circumference of want and woe and sin that no- figures can calculate. This one spiritual continent of wretchedness reaches across all sone, and if I were called to give. its geographlcac boundary I would say it is bounded on the north and south and east and west by the great heart of God's sympathy and love. Oh, it is a great world. Bince 6 o'clook this morning at least 80 000 have been born, and all these multiplied populations are to be reached of the gospel. n England or in Eastern American cities we are being much crowded, and an re of ground is of great value. but out West 500 acres is a snlll iarm, and 20, 000 acres is no unusual possession. There is a vast field herb and everywhere unoc cupied, plenty of room more, not building on another man's foundation. We need as churches to stop bombarding the old ron clad sinners that have been proof against thirty years of Christian assault, and aim for the salvation or those who have never yet had one warm hearted and point blank invitation. There are churches whose buildings might be worth $200,000, who are not averaging five new converts a year and doing less good than many a log cabin meet ing house with tallow candle stuck In wooden ooket and a minister who has never seen a college or known the difference between reek and Choctaw. We need churches to get nto sympathy with the great outsideI world, and let them know that none are so broken hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. "No!" says some fan idious Christian: "I don't like to be crowd ed in church. Don't put any one in my ew." My brother, what will you do In heaven? When a great multitude that no man can number assembles, they will put flity :In your pew. What are the select few o-day assembled in the Christian churches compared with the mightier milons outside of them? At least 3,000,000 people in this cluster of iaboard cities, and not more than 200,000 in the churches. Many of the churches are ike a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than tooth ihe or "run arounds," but no broken heads, ro crushed ankles. no fractured thighs. Qive us for treatment moderate sinners, vel et coated sinners and sinners with a gloss mi. It isasthoughi a man had a farm of i00 acres and put all his work on one acre.I Re may raise never so large ears of corn, riever so big heads of wheat, he would re nain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre and has raised' ;plendd men and women in that small in 'losure but the field is the world. That eans North and South America. Europe, Aisla and Africa and all the islands of the It is as though after a great battle thce6 were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the 5eld and three surgeons gave all 'their time :o three patients under their charge. The najorgeneal comes in and says to the doe ;ors. "Come out here and look at the nearlv 50060 dying for lack of surgical attendance.' N"say the three doctors, standing there ud'fanning their patients; ' wve have three tmportant cases here, and we are attending ;hem, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to Keep the flies off." In this awful battle of in and sorroW, whek'e millions have fallen n millions, do not let us spend all our time L taking care of a few people, and when the sommand comes, "Go into the world."~ say practically: "No, I cannot go. I have here: i few choice cases, and lam busy keeping off he flies." There are multtudes to-day who iave neirer had any Christian worker look hem in the eye, and with earnestness in the Lccentuation say, "Come!" or they would ong ago have been in the kingdom. My: riends, religion is either a sham or a tre.: nendous reelity. If It be asham, let us cease; o have anything to do with Christian as ,ociation. If It be a reality, then great opulatons are on their way to the bar of lod unftted for the ordeal, and what are we In order to teach the multitude of outsid srs we must drop all technicalities out of our religion. When we talk to people about the iypostatic union and French encyclopedlan m and erastianism and compintenslanism, we are as impolitie and little understood as fa physician should talk to an ordinary pa lrt about the peiricardium and int'gesqtal geiis and ecarounne symptoms. ~Many ol us come out of the theological seminaries so loaded up that we take the first ten years to show our people how much we know, and ;he next ten years to get our people to know is much as we know, and at the end find~ :hat neither of us knows any'-ng as we yught to know. Here are uiousands of sin ing, struggling and dying people who ne o ralise just one thing-that Jesus Christ ca m them.i atd wlIU saah- ng9W But iVe go Into a proround and elaborate definition of what Justification is, and after all the work there are not outside of the earned professions 5000 people in the United -... wao ean tell what justifaation is I will read you the definition: "Justification is purely a forensic act, tha. &st of a judge sitting in the foram, in whieb the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is ae o:untable to none, and who alone knows the manner in which the ends of His universa govornment can best be attained, reckoni that which was done by the substitute, and not on account of anything done by them, but purely upon account of this gracui method of reekoning, gcants them the ful remission of their sin_" Now, what is justification? I will tell yo ffhat justificatien is. When a sinner be. lieves, God lets him off. One summer im Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I aaw over the door written the words, "No ad mittance." I entered and saw over the next door, "No admittance." Of courseIentered. Usot inside and found It a Din factoy. and they were makTng pins, very serviceable. fific and useful pins. So the spirit of exclusive ness has practically written over the outsidi lo'r of many a church, "No admittance.' a!nd if the stranger enter he finds practically written over the second door, "No admit. :ance," and if he goes in over all the peu loors seems written "No admittance," while :he minister stands In the pulpit, hammering >ut his little niceties of belief, pounding out ;he technicalities of religion, making pins. [u the most practical common sense way. ind laying aside the nonessentials and the 2ard definitions of religion, go out on the aod given mission, telling the people what ;hey need and when and how they can get it. Comparatively little effort as yet has beer nade to save that large class of persons it >ur midst called skeptics, and he who goee :o work here will not be building upon mother man's foundation. There is a greal nultitude of them. They are afraid of ut md our churches, for the reason we do not now how to treat them. One of this class net Christ. and hear with what tendernese md pathos and beauty and success Christ lealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord :hy God with all thy heart, and with all thy toul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment, md the second is like to this-namely, thou :halt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is to other commandment greater than. this." Lnd the scribe said to Him, "Well, Master, 1hou hast said the truth, for there is one lod, and to love Him with all the heart, mnd all the understanding, and all the soul, Lad all the strength. is more than whole )urnt offerings and sacrifices." And when fesus saw that he answered discreetly He aid unto him, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved n one interview. But few Christian people rest the skeptic in that way. Instead of tak. ag hold of him with the gentle hand of love, re are apt to take him with the iron pincher 'f eeelesiasticism. You would not be so rough on that man il rou knew by what process he had lost his Wth in Christianity. I have known men ikeptical from the fact that they grew up in touses where religion was overdone. Sun lay was the most awful day of the week. rhey had religion driven into them with a rip hammer. They were surfeited with irayer meetings. They were stuffed and shoked with catechisms. They were often ;old they were the worst boys the parents wver knew, because they liked to ride down till better than to read Bunyan's "Pilgrim's ?rogress." Whenever father and motheI alked of religion, they drew down the oor. xers of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If any one thing wili send a boy or girl te uinsone than another, that ist. If I iad such a fathr and mother, I fearI should kave been an ffideL When I was a boy In sunday-school, at one time we had a teacher who, when we were not attentive, struck ut >ver the head with a New Testament, and :here is a way of using even the Bible so as :o make it offensive. Others were tripped up of skepticism from seing grievously wronged by some man who professed to be a Ohristian. They had a rtner in business who turned out to be a rsilass scotindrel, though a professed Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith :y what happened in an oil company which was formed amid the petroleum excitement. rhe company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced, but the President of the company was a Presbyterian slder, and the treasurer was an Episcopal restryman, and one director was a Methods slass leader, and the other directors promi ent members of Baptist and Conglegational shurches. Circulars were gotten out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this ompany. Innocent linen and women who had a little money to Invest, and that ittle their all, said, "I don't know anything shout this company, but so many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent, and taking stock in It must be almost s good as joining the church." So they bought the stock and perhaps re eived one dividand so as to lgeep them still. but after awhile they found that the com pany had reorganized and had a different president and different treasurer and differ et directors. .Other engagements or ill health had caused the former officers of the :ompany, with many regrets, to resign. SAnd all that the subscribers of that stock had o show for their investment was a beauti fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes hat man looking over his old papers comes aross that certificate, and It Is so suggestive~ hat he vows he wants none of 'the religion hat the presidents and trustees end direc ors of that oil company professed. Of sourse their rejection of r on on such. grounds was unphilosophical ad unwise. i~ m told that many of the United States army esert every year, and there are thousande >f court martis every year. Is that aything against the United States Gov einent that swore them in? And If a soldier of yesus Christ desert. is thai mything against the Christianity which e swore to support and defend? How de ou judge of the currency of a country? By a counterfeit bill? Oh, you must have pa. ience with those who .have been swindled by rligious pretenders. Live In the presence of >thers afrank, honest, earnest Christian life, hat they may be attracted to the same Say' our upon whom your hopes depend. Remember skepticism always has somL ?ason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe'! rreligion started when the news came to Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov. , 1775. That 60,000 people should have erished In that earthquake and in the aftex ising of the Tagus so stirred his sympathies hat he threw up his belief In the goodness o0 od. Others nave gone into skepticism from a atural persistence in asking the reason why. they have been fearfully stabbed of the In errogation point. There are so many thinge hey cannot get explained. They cannot un erstand the Trinity or how God can be sov reign and yet a man a free agent. Neither an LThey say: "I don't understand why a good God should have let sin come into the world. Neither do I. You say: "Why was hat child started In life with such disadvan ages, while others have all physical and ental equipment?" I cannot tell. They go ut of church on Easter morning and say: "That _doctrine of the resurrection cgn founded me." noit Is to me a mystery De ond unravelment. I understand all the pro esses by which men get into the dark. I cnow them all. I have traveled with burning eet that blistered way The first word whicb ost children learn to utter is: "Papa," ox "Mamma." but I think the first word I ever ttered was: "Why?" I know what it is to ave a hundred midnights pour their arkness into one hour. Such men are not o be scoffed, but helped. Turn your back pon a drowning man when you have the ope with which to pull him ashore, and let hat woman in the third story of a house erish in the flames when you have a ladder with which to help her out and help her own, rather than turn your back scoffingly en a skeptic whose soul is in more peril that the bodies of those other endangered ones pssibly can be. Oh, skepticism is a darl and. There are men in this house whc gcnia give a thousand wrelds. ifthrlp S=5VU JLV&L4%FLW - - - --.- - their fathers and mothers, and it is our plaof to help them, and we may help them, nevei througb their heads, but always througl: their hearts. These skeptics. when brought to Jesus, will be mightily effective, far more so than those who never examined the evi. donces of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptio Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Newton a skep. tic, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But when once with strong hand they took hold of the ahariot of the gospel they rolled it on with what momentum! If I address such men and women to-day, I throw out no scoff. I implead them by the memory of the good old days, when at their mother's knee they said, "Now I lay me down to sleep," and by those days and nights of scarlet fever in which she watched you, giving you the medicine at just the right time and turning your pillow when it was hot, and with hadds that many years ago turned to dust soothed away your pain, and with voice that you will never hear again, unless you join her in the better country told you to never mind, for you would feel better by and by, and by that dying couch, where she looked so pale and talked so slowly, catching her breath between the words, and you felt an awful loneliness coin'.ng over your soul-by all that I beg you to come back and take the same religion. It was good enough for her. It is good enough for you. Nay, I hays a better plea thaa that. I plead by all the wounds and tears and blood and groans and agonies and death throes of the Son of God, who approaches you this moment with torn brow, and lacer sted hand, and whipped back, and saying. "Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Again, there is a field of usefulness but lit. tle touched occupied by those who are astray In their habits. All northern Nations, like those of North America and England and Bootland-that is, in the colder climates-are devastated by alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up the warmth. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm ther are not temoted to fiery Liquids. The great Roman -armies never drank anything stronger than water tinged with vinegar, but under our northernelimate the temptation to heating stimulants is most mighty, and millions succumb. When a man's habits go wrong the church drops him; the social circle drops him; good in fuence drops him; we all drop him. Of all the men who get off track, bat few ever get on again. Near my summer residence there Is a life saving station on the beach. There are all the ropes and rockets, the boats, the michinery for getting people off shipwrecks. One summerI saw there fifteen or twenty men who were breakfasting after having just escaped with their lives and nothing more. Up and down our coasts are built these useful structures, and the mari ners know it, and they feel that if they are driven into the breakers there will be apt from shore to come a rescue. The churches of God ought to be so many life saving stations, not so much to help those who are in smooth waters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the lifeboats! And who will man them? We do not preach enough to such men. We have not enough faith in their release. Alas, if when they come to hear us we are la boriously trying to show the diference be tween sublapsarianlam and supralapsarian Ism, while they have a thousand vipes of re morse and despair coiling around their i&. mortal spirits! The church is not chiefly for goodish sort of men whose proclivities are all right, and who could get to heaven praying and sing Ing In their own homes. It is on the beach to help the drowning. Those bad cases are the cases that Godlikes to take hold of. He can Ave a ltg sinner as well as a kmall sin ner, and when a man calls earnestly to God for help He will go out to deliver such a one. If it were necessary, God would come down from the sky, followed by all the artillery of heaven and a million angels with drawn swords. Get 100 sikch redeemed men in each of your churches, and nothing could stand before them, for such men are generally warm-hearted and enthusiastic. Purthermore, the destitute children of the streets offer a field of work comparatively unoccupied. The uncared for children are in the majority in most of our cities. Their condition was well illustrated by what a boy in this city said when he was found under a art gnawing a bone and some one said to him, "Where do you live?" and he answered "on't live nowhere, sir!" Seventy thousand of the children of New York City can neither reatd nor write. When they grow up, If un reformed, they will toutvote your children, and they will govern your children. The whisky ring will hatch out ether whisky rings, and grogshops will kill with their hor rid stench public sobriety, unless the church f God rises up with outstretched arms and infolds this dying population in her bosom. Public schools cannot do it. Art galleries annot do it, Blackwell's Island cannot do It. Almsahouses cannot do It. New York ombs cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot dolit. People of God, wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do It. Get somewhere, omehow, to work! The Prussian cavalry mount by puttint heir right foot into the stirrup, wile the American cavalry mount by putting their left foot into t~he stirrup. I don't care how you nount your war charger if you only get into his battle for God, and get there soon. right stirrup, or left stirrup, or no stirrup at all. he uneccupled fields are all aroqad us, and why should we build on another man's foun. lation? I have heard of what was called the "tunder legion." It was in 179, a part of he Romah army to which some Christians elonged, and their prayers, it was said, were aswered by shunder and lightning and hail and tempest, which overthrew an invading my and saved theEmnpire. And I would to od that you could be so mighty In prayer and work that you would become a thunder ing legion before which the forces of sin ight berout ed and the gates of hell made o tremble. All aboard now on the gospel ship! If you cannot be a captain ora ar ate, be a stoker or a deckhand, or ready at ommand to climb the ratlines. Heave away ow, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore. opsail! Come, 0 heavenly wind, and fill he canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our afety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us for. ward. Jesus on the shining shore will wel ome us into harbor. "And so it eavnc tg :sa that they all escaped safe to land." ondon's Feminine Stock Broker. Amy B. Bell has been for several ears a srtock broker in London. She as an office hard by the Stock Ex hange, and does a large tusiness, es pcially among women clients. Her pculiar aptness for the profession was shown when she was a little girL. n old gentleman, a visitor at MISS Bell's home, bappened one day to be iligently reading the money article n the Times. He was In no mood to e interrupted, so he said to the child when she hung around him: "Run way, little girl! I am busy with my essons, and you must go to yours." "Yes," said little Miss Amy, "but hat's your lessons is my play!" For t was the highest recreation of the nfant phenomenon to study the stock qotations. A Historic annon., Elight miles north of Greenv'lles, hio, John Neff found a cannon cap tured from St. Ols r's sol'.iers by In :ians during the retreat from Fort Recovery to Greenville in 1791. A :errick was used to extricate it from a hole eleven feet deep. J.t is brass, six feet long, and sheets ~iix pound balls saa's Eer B sa 1 Weep 1 & COVETOUS . man cannot own ' *4anytjhig. -EEP yourselt pure and God will keep you 3 safe. Lovi can live. where all other good would die. } NOT o ne Christian in a - thousand praises God enoutgh. MAN Is most like God when he is most filled with love. STAR dust is not soul food. The bread of life is Christ. GETING rid of God's man Is not. getting rid of God's truth. THE only way to keep clear of sia is to keep close to Christ. LOVE never complains that th. price It has to pay is roo much. TaE more others are untrue the more God needs loyalty in us. A PREACHER with a warm heart will not long have a cold church. IT is an awful thing to seek God ana not do it with the whole heart. IT never makes the day any brighter to growl at the cloudy weather. You can always be happy if you are willinr to rejoice with others. THs devil gets the man who puts nif starting for Heaven until to-mor 'row. WHEN you want to walk straight yourself don't watch somebody else's feet. THE man who seeks his reward in this world never gets a price that suits him. You can tell how much people love the Lord by the kind of company they keep. EVERYTHING not fully consecrated to God is something the devil still has a claim on. THE trouble with the man whc knows nothing is that he Is the last #o find it out. No xATrr what the devil saysA believe what God says, and peace wil be the result. GoD says He loves us, and there Is nothing we can do to please Him better than to believe it. HAD Christ died a natural death there would have been' no necessity ?or hlsrsurrec nn GIvE some people mountaIn-mov Ing faith and everybody else's land ,would soon be covered with hills. THERE is this difference between & wise man and a fool; A fool's mis %akes never teach him anything. PEoPLE have to be living very near to the throne before they can enjoy laving their faults pointed out. IT will help you to be more like Christ to remember that every man in earth needs you for a brother. As LONG as a trashy newspaper ft made Welcome in a home, God will not undertake to keep the devil out. No PEE~ACBE~ can preach as God ,Rants him to preach who wrates his ser'uons on the head of his flour bar iT may be that money will over :omne the world, but it takes religloun pure and undeflled to overcome the 'evil. THE wickeder a man is the hardet he will try to persuade himself that his conduct Is prompted by a good active. THE preaching that has Christ in .t, always sends somebody away from hbe church with a determination to o, better. THE klnd of preaching a worldlint. lkes is that which will permit him eo keep on living in sin and still feel hbas he is safe. New Process of Seasoning Lumbea, Messrs. M:,Bae &Co., of Ottawa, are developing a new industry in Cana ian lumber. They have secnred the control of a German patent for the treatmont of beech and birch woods. Mr. Mo~ae, speaking on the .matter, said: "The great objection hitherto. held against these woods is the fact that they are very difficult to season, and even when they have been sea soned fully forty per cent. is defective. -By the new process the sap is sweated out of the boards by being placed, in a gree state, in steam chambers for twelve days, after which it is put into the drying chamber for two or three days, according to thickness, and then by a chemical application the wood is stined throughout a rich walnut olor. The process has been tried on * large scale in Germany for the past eighteen months, and has proved snch asuneua that experts acknowledge that wood so treated is superior to walnut and the owners there write that they are quite unable to supply the de mand. No country in the world has uch forests of beech and birch as anada, and the discovery of this pro ess will no doubt greatly enhance - - their value. A trial kiln has been uilt in Ottawa and the first parcel turned out last week is so satisfactory that works for the treatment of twenty-five car loads monthly will be. reeted there immediately, .and ar rangements made for the erection of two other plants, -one in Western Canada and the other in the Province f Qttebpo. It is probable that the ulk of the first season's output will be shipped to England, where- the iood is well known and can be read ily sold on a profitable basis."--To. ronto Star. The Maoris of New Zealand own :ou) 10,000,000 aara